Emma Kissock, Head of Data Platform, British Gas New Energy Platform

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? As a new business unit, we are lucky that we are in the position to be currently working together to shape what our corporate vision and values will be. Simply, we want to provide a great energy product to […]
Michael Payne, Managing Director, Information Business, Barclays Bank UK

Path to power Over the past four years, I have overseen the development of the information business within Barclays UK, helping it to expand under the twin pillars of stewardship and commercialisation. Running a start-up business within an organisation with a 325-year history is no mean feat, yet this has been achieved at pace, […]
Samir Boualla, Chief Data Officer, ING Bank France

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? ING has the ambition to be the leading data-driven digital bank. Data and innovation have always been to be part of our DNA and a firm pillar in our business strategy and transformation. We started our data journey many […]
Kate Teh, Group Legal Director, Telegraph Media Group

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The landscape of journalism has radically changed over the past 20 years, recently accelerated by Covid-19. Print circulation and revenues have declined dramatically, users and revenues have moved online, and competition from the tech giants and social media platforms […]
Natalie Jakomis, Global Director of Data Science and Analytics, Coats

Path to power I am fortunate to have had several roles over the past 16 years, all of which have involved using data and technology to solve interesting problems. I started my career as a cancer epidemiologist at the Office for National Statistics, before moving to Ofsted to head up the schools data and […]
Andrew Lynn, Head of Data, Unicef UK

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Data and analytics underpin each of our strategic goals – we can only continue to build and grow through the use of data and the provision of insight through robust analysis. Perhaps the area where data and analytics is most […]
Craig Civil, Head of Data Innovation, R&D and Analytics, Lloyd’s

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Lloyd’s purpose – Sharing risk to create a braver world – defines our role in the world and guides our work every day. It is the reason our market exists. It reflects who we are and what we do. […]
Gemma Hulbert, Chief Data Officer, Gymshark

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? At Gymshark, our purpose is to unite the conditioning community, where conditioning is everything we do today to prepare for tomorrow. When Ben and his friends started the business in 2012, they made apparel that represented them and their […]
Nick Latocha, Director, Business Intelligence, Analytics and Insight, CHEP

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? CHEP is a leading pallet pooling company, moving over 330 million platforms which are constantly shared and reused by producers and distributors across the world in a circular model. This model makes data analytics one of our strategic initiatives […]
Seema Mandhra, Insights and Analytics Director, Discovery+ EMEA

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Analytics is of the upmost importance to Discovery+, assisting the business with monitoring the success of our products. Discovery+ provides an online video-on-demand (VoD) direct-to-consumer (DTC) service providing a digital entertainment experience to all customers. Data and analytics is […]
Andrew Sephton, Head of Information and Data Management, Civil Aviation Authority

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? As the regulator of civil aviation in the UK, we have two primary asset – the subject matter experts we employ and the data those subject matter experts use to make our regulatory decisions. As a result, data […]
Cristina Diofebbo, Director Strategic Insights and Media Pricing, Inventory and Ops, Sky

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Data at Sky is at the heart of strategic and operational decisions and a key asset that enables us to deliver best-in-class value, experience, content and products for our customers. The data eco-system is very broad given the breadth […]
Gill Tomlinson, Director – Data and Analytics, Three UK

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Our organisation makes extensive use of data and analytics. As a telecommunications company with a responsibility to ensure we maintain a stable and high-performant network, we use data and analytics to drive diagnostic analysis of the network and accelerate […]
Laura Parfitt, Lead, Product Analytics and Data Science, Google UK

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Google’s mission is “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. Data is fundamental to Google products, and often data is the product. Analytics is being used across all areas at Google to improve products […]
Nina Monckton, Head of Data Engineering and Science, Just

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Data is critical for us to integrate our health propositions and services, gain a deeper understanding of customer needs and provide a better quality of care to millions of customers. It is an exciting time to be a data […]
Sid Shah, Head of Analytics and Insight – Data Intelligence, Condé Nast

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Data and analytics are important pillars supporting Condé Nast’s corporate vision and growth initiatives. Condé Nast is a global media company that produces some of the world’s leading print, digital, video and social brands, including Vogue, GQ, The New […]
Andy Day, Chief Data Officer, Pepper Global Financial Services

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Data and analytics is a core pillar of Pepper’s vision. Some 24 months ago, there was a view that data and analytics could help drive further business performance and over the past two years we have proven that to […]
Dan Bates, Head of Data and Analytics, Business, Telefónica O2

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Over the last few years, we have been steadily increasing the areas where centralised trusted data and analytics are used in measuring business performance, up to board-level reporting. This year we are explicitly linking our data and analytics capability […]
Giuseppe Sollazzo, Head of AI Skunkworks and Deployment, NHSx

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? In 2020, I worked for two organisations, the Department for Transport and NHSx, which use data and analytics both in their business-as-usual and in their response to situations of crisis. In late 2019, I announced my intention to work […]
Simon Asplen-Taylor, Data Lead – Future at Lloyd’s, Lloyd’s of London

How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? At Lloyd’s of London, we’ve recently published our data-led strategy to build the most advanced insurance marketplace in the world. The plans we set out in Blueprint Two will deliver revolutionary change for the market, ensuring the future of […]